Weird cases: tee off not par for the course

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Golf was once described by John Cunningham as “a game in which a ball (one and
a half inches in diameter) is placed on a ball (eight thousand miles in
diameter), the object being to hit the small ball but not the larger”.

A case in California brought by a model called Liz Dickson will now examine
how well a golfer is expected to play when the ground rules are altered.

Ms Dickson was injured when her bottom was hit by a golf club swung by Kevin
Klein, a radio presenter at the Playboy Golf Finals. In an unusual scenario